Alex Howlett

1/ A Four-Star’s History Lesson on the Iran War A must-read summary of a great listen: see @nytimes @DavidAFrench's conversation with former commander of US Special Forces in Afghanistan and Iraq Gen. Stanley McChrystal. nytimes.com/2026/03/23/opi…

Pentagon’s New $65.8B Shipbuilding Request is Highest Since 1962 I can't believe the Navy has included FIVE (5) FIREBOATS! It is about DAMN TIME! news.usni.org/2026/04/03/pen… via @withemes

@ivodelingpole DFW would kill himself again if he were alive today im afraid to say

Would highly recommend you watch David Foster Wallace talking about boredom, and why some people now find it so hard to read. Sorely wish he were around today to hear his views on TikTok and the like.

@ValkStrategy leadership by robert greene monographs

The worst of this administration of bratty, entitled children is that even the relatively competent executives in government have to indulge their tantrums, to protect their people and programs from the halfwitted flunkies who might replace them.

@Brad_Howard_ USS Boxer group still enroute...

@mcgillmd921 the quirites will not be forgotten

They put the letters in the wrong order. It should be SQPR

What's the best WW2 book you've ever read? I pulled together 28 of my picks. Covering everything from the Eastern Front to D-Day, spy operations to the bombing campaigns, the Holocaust to the home front. drive.google.com/file/d/1soY-W8…

@latinedisce q is for quirites

S · Senatus = 'The Senate' P · Populus = 'The People' Q · Que = 'And' R · Romanus = 'Roman'

@AC_NavalHistory @JustinCraigEd dark is cooler for sure

So which @JustinCraigEd colour scheme suits me better?

@michaelshermer you think sociologists wont keep pursuing this orwellian nu-speak into the grave of their entire discipline?

Decades from now historians, sociologists & linguists will make a list like this as a case study in how, in the early part of the 21st century, the left took liberal tolerance to absurd lengths to the point of illiberalism. (Didn't they have a word for "vagina-haver"?)

@BrunoTertrais someday a reporter will actaully ask dugin what he meant by the "earth material powers defeating the water element thalassocracies across europe"

As every neighbor of Russia knows it has a tradition of calm and friendliness

Trump threatened to stop weapons for Ukraine unless Europe joined Hormuz coalition ft.trib.al/W1wh66u

Breaking news: The U.S. military gave the president a plan to seize nearly 1,000 pounds of highly enriched uranium in Iran. The mission would require the airlift of potentially hundreds or thousands of troops and could take weeks. wapo.st/3PWVRzs

Books on tap for April. I’m hoping to complete my Early Greek Philosophy rabbit trail in order to return to Plato in May. The book on the bottom is One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and is for the Short Great Books reading group I lead each month in Franklin, TN.

HMS Revenge, HMS Ramillies, HMS Royal Sovereign and HMS Resolution Steaming in Line in the Atlantic (c.1930)

As arthur c clarke once said, Vietnam would have paid for everything seen in 2001: A Space Odyssey

Opinion: "By that measure, the United States does not have air superiority where it counts," write analysts Max Bremer and Kelly Grieco. airforcetimes.com/opinion/2026/0…

@BuchananLiz accurate summary, "long war, we donno what we're doing really"

🇦🇺 coming months will be shitty 🇬🇧 reverse Brexit